Irma Norminton

“But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries or travel to exotic lands to arrive at a view of our modern situation refracted through the lens of the preindustrial world, or the uncommercialized, unfranchised, perhaps unsanitized-and therefore supposedly more "authentic"-perspective ofthe Third World. Very simply, this is because that "other" world, as alien as if separated by centuries in time, is the one from which I came”
― Sidney Poitier, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

“Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.”
― George R.R. Martin

“I am the me I choose to be.”
― Sidney Poitier